Old Dec 26, 2009 | 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by iansoutham
This may be a little better priced.

I got one of these myself about 2 weeks ago, and am using it now.

http://cgi.ebay.co.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-245-X2-DUALCORE-CPU-2GB-GF8100-MOTHERBOARD-BUNDLE_W0QQitemZ400065576019QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_ Motherboards_CPUs?hash=item5d25c43c53uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400065576019&ssPageNam e=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Same basic kit as listed above but half the memory (another 2GB is only £50) and the built-in graphics is a nVidia chipset so not some cheap one.

Plugged it all together with my current setup and installed Windows7 and it was working fine straight away.

One thing to remember on your graphics card is that almost all motherboards now are PCI-E x16 spec, not the older AGP or PCI. If your old card is one of those 2, I would get rid of it anyway as the motherboards are obsolete as far as I can find.

problems what i see IMO with that spec

2gb of CHEAP ram
horrible cheap brand of motherboard
no graphics card and the on-board gfx would struggle to run minesweeper nevermind any decent game

just wouldn't make sense to me to even go down that route
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